Odilo Globocnik

Odilo Globocnik (21 April 1904-31 May 1945) was a Gruppenfuhrer of the SS of Nazi Germany who was responsible for several murders during Operation Reinhard in the Holocaust. He was called "the vilest individual in the vilest organization ever known" by historian Michael Allen.

Biography
Odilo Globocnik was born on 21 April 1904 in Trieste, Austria-Hungary to a father of Slovene descent and a mother of Czech descent, with both parents being assimilated into German culture. Globocnik fought in a pro-Austrian volunteer unit during the Carinthian War of 1918-1919 against Yugoslavia, and he joined Nazi Carinthian paramilitary groups. In 1930, he joined the Austrian SS and the Austrian Nazi Party, and he became Gauleiter of Vienna under Nazi Germany following the Anschluss in 1938. On 9 November 1939, SS leader Heinrich Himmler made Globocnik the SS police leader in Lublin in occupied Poland, and he was responsible for the liquidations of the Warsaw Ghetto and Bialystok Ghetto, and he was the one who suggested the idea of extermination camps to Himmler during the Holocaust. He complied in the murder of 1,500,000 Jews, and after the November 1943 end of Operation Reinhard he was sent to his hometown of Trieste to lead SS police in Italy, but the advance of Allied soldiers led to him retreating to Carinthia. He was captured on 31 May 1945 by the United Kingdom's 4th Queen's Own Hussars, and he took cyanide rather than be imprisoned and tried for crimes against humanity.